Reconstruction Vocab

a violent post-Civil War secret society founded in Tennessee in 1866 to upend the Black political and social power that was being established during Reconstruction

• Ku Klux Klan

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Right Act of 1865

• 14th Amendment

1. slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 13th Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

• 15th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.

• 13 Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

a new form of slavery that started after the Civil War and went on for decades across the South. States — and companies — got rich by arresting mostly Black men and then forcing them to work for major companies.

• Convict Leasing

• Black Code

• Ku Klux Klan

• 15th Amendment

restrictive laws designed to limit the freedom of African Americans and ensure their availability as a cheap labor force after slavery was abolished during the Civil War.

• Jim Crow

• Black Codes

• Lend Lease Act

• Civil Rights Act of 1865

 Laws that restricted the marriage of folks of different races

• Miscegenation Laws

• Black Codes

• 13th Amendment

established in 1865 by Congress to help millions of former Black slaves and poor whites in the South in the aftermath of the Civil War; provided food, housing and medical aid, established schools and offered legal assistance. It also attempted to settle former slaves on land confiscated or abandoned during the war.

• Legal Aide

• Freedmen's Bureau

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Black Codes

The bill guaranteed all citizens, regardless of color, access to accommodations, theatres, public schools, churches, and cemeteries.

• Segregation

• 13th Amendment

• Civil Rights Act of 1875

• Jim Crow

Match the following words to the correct terms

• Voting rights

• 15th Amendment

• Citizenship rights

• 14th Amendment

• Abolished slavery

• 13th Amendment